Goodbye Leon Redbone

Loved his stuff from the first time I ever saw it, and that was a long, long time ago. Those of us who loved the old stuff, the kind of stuff our grandparents and parents would have loved, took naturally to Leon Redbone. He wasn’t very good at singing, but that did not stop him. […]

On Trump: Why It’s Time to Turn It Down

I don’t know how you feel about President Trump, although I can guess if you eventually read this you do not think well of him. I certainly don’t, but I have now realized after a couple and a half years of trying to spit at him and slap him around that it was wasted spit […]

Drunk Nancy? You Wish!

Well, I think this step was inevitable. One of the things about Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House and second in line in presidential succession, is the fact that she is a terrible public speaker. That is not a criticism of what she says, but how she says it. Halting. Stumbling. Getting tangled up in […]

Bitching on his own terms…

So, does it sound to you like the President was ever interested in infrastructure conversations with the Democrats, or was this whole thing just a setup so he could bitch at the audience on his own terms? My guess it’s almost all about bitching on his own terms, like the self-centered ego- centric sicko he […]

Iran and War? Not Yet

President Trump has sent the message to the rest of Washington that he is not pushing for a war with Iran. This is the best news coming from the man in weeks and weeks, but I don’t know whether this thought will hold. He has that consistency problem. You know, one day it’s this and […]

Trump Takes Us Toward War? Not in this lifetime!

What a scary thought. Not for Iran, which I suspect will go on being Iran. But for us. Let’s travel in time back to George Bush’s War against Saddam Hussein. Remember Weapons of Mass Destruction? We were told they were laying all over the place in the desert, just waiting for us. So the cause […]

Should Facebook Be Denuded? Please respond at end of this essay!

So, the suggestion seems to be emerging that it’s time to whack Facebook hard, not just a light trimming. I’m not sure about how I feel about this. I left the newspaper I worked for in Chicago 12 years ago and still felt the need to write and comment but I didn’t want to have […]